linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 3/3] crc32c: Implement a self-test for CRC32c

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Date:	Thu, 1 Sep 2011 18:24:22 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Bob Pearson <rpearson@...temfabricworks.com>,
	'Andreas Dilger' <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	'Herbert Xu' <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	'Theodore Tso' <tytso@....edu>,
	'David Miller' <davem@...emloft.net>,
	'linux-kernel' <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	'Mingming Cao' <cmm@...ibm.com>,
	'linux-crypto' <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
	'linux-fsdevel' <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] crc32c: Implement a self-test for CRC32c

On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 03:18:54PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> I suspect it would be pretty easy to adapt the Makefile to generate the
> relevant .c and .h files; in particular it could be useful to use the crypto
> framework for crc32 on the off chance anyone wants to provide hwaccel for that
> too.

crc32 or crc32c?  Note that there already is a hardware optimized crc32c
for recent Intel CPUs in arch/x86/crypto/crc32c-intel.c.

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